In the Indian discovery of America and the American discovery of India, increased expectations, timely delivery on commitments, agreed-upon mutual course corrections and consolidation of gains would be crucial.
Today, I've come for a visit to chat with her about her scope of work, and of course, our mutual affinity for fashion and what she's doing to get ready for one of the biggest multi-day events of the year in the city: the Toronto International Film Festival TIFFF).
Do this house a favour, do this country a favour, and say that this country is out, and then, armed with that certainty, let us all sit down constructively and pragmatically to decide on what our future relationship will actually look like, and one which works to our mutual benefit, and sets a course where we can remain friends and allies and trading partners in years to come.
It's a good-natured joke, of course, and our mutual laughter signifies the truth of the matter.
I just watched the MIT lectures on 'Poker Theory and Analytics,' an 'Independent Activities Period' mini-course, and for our mutual amusement, I worked through the math on bluffing, which is an interesting problem I had never done the full deep dive into.
During that session, over the course of our silence and our mutual listening, my director asked if I was experiencing what Saint John of the Cross calls the "Dark Night of the Soul".
In the course of a conversation about our mutual disenchantment with the economy and U.S. politics, it emerged that Tzipi, a professor of social work at Long Island University, was the daughter of two Holocaust survivors.
Other than Facebook, of course, where we are "friends," after he was referred by our mutual friend Vernon Loeb of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Our mutual friend Mario Buatta, the celebrated decorator came too, donning six different wigs, over the course of two hours, each more ridiculous than the last, in a typical display of his idiosyncratic excuse for humor.
But Ileana liked our mutual foolishness".
